, 1887-02-24
Tho &c, man Grown Princess.

The Princess Royal is an interestin,
figure upon the European stage, o
whom, in political sense, it is neces
sary to speak. She belongs to fami
" in which their are many able mem
bers. Her mother is, considering the
pressure of detail on her daily life, one
OF the most able persons, King or
Queen, that has ever sat upon throne.
But the Princess Royal is in some re-
spects the ablest member OF the fam.
lily except her mother. The Princess
Royal has that which her mothers
perpetual hard labor upon limited and
special work has necessarily kept from
her--much deep reading and great
knowledge of literary and general af.
fairs, which have made her as strong q
liberal in many matters as the Queen
is the powerful conservative.
The Grown Princess is not popular
in Germany. The reasons for that un-
popularity are upon the surface. She
has been the patrons of reputedly
free-thinking clergymen, and popular
gossip has accused her OF being q
complete free-thinker. This makes
her very unpopular in some quarters.
She has often turned German pre-
judices into ridicule, and this makes
her still more unpopular in others.
She is very clever, a quality which in
courts makes Princess unpopular with
fools. She is somewhat learned,
which everywhere makes people un-
popular with the ignorant. Her
Royal Highness once asked u Prussian
general, before his friends, who was
consul of Rome in a particular year.
Naturally, that distinguished officer
has from that day been more Bis
MARKHAM than the North German Ga.
zettc or the Post itself.
The Crown Princess ut one time
used to excite great hostility in Ger
many by prOclaiming much admira-
ton for France; but that practice is,
l think, q matter OF the past. She still
on occasions ruties the feelings OF
the court, as, for example, in her
strong sympathy with the English adj
miration for the Battenberg Prince of
Bulgaria, who is member of family
by no means too popular at the Ger
man court. But surely there can be
no doubt, whatever may be the dreams
which have been cherished by some in
France, that when she comes to reign
in Germany she will come to the
throne as n good German, and reign
as such. Political influence with her
oldest son, it is said, the Princess has
not, but his reign is a long way off at
present. The son is Bismarckian and
his wife is orthodox, and probably the
difficulties which there may have been
were difficulties upon questions which
effect these matters, and il 80 they are
obviously difficulties which are likely
to be softoned or entirely removed by
time. Those who best know the
Crown Prince himself say that he is
very conscious of the limitations OF his
own abilities-limitations which are
not so much OF the mind az OF habit
II would be mistake to exaggerate
the difficulties which have existed be.
tween Prince Bismarck and himself.
At times, as for example, at the mo-
mcnt Of the issue of certain imperial
rescript, against which the Grown
Prince strongly protested, the differ
cnces have been sharp; but on the
whole the Crown Prince has been
content to defend his wife, and it is
supposed that, like good husband, he
is pleased to be held by his more ener.
gctic consort in silken bonds. The
most recent difficulties that have ex
listed ut the German court have been
those which have concerned the choice
of persons. For example, Count
Gutenberg, for many years Hof. Mar
schal to the Crown Prince, was ap
pointed chiefly because he was 4
strong conservative and strong Bis
MARKHAM, holding opinions which are
much opposed on most points to those
of the Crown Princess, and in less
degree, therefore, opposed also tc
those held by the Crown Prince. Nat
urally the result for many years was
u good deal of friction, caused by the
frequent conferences between Count
Gutenberg and the Chancellor. There
were matters which rose in connection
with the proposal to appoint Count
Gutenberg to post elsewhere, which il
is unnecessary to relate, but which a
one time led TO an open breach be
tween Prince Bismarck and the Grown
Princess. These difficulties, thougl
still great, are not so considerable ~
they at one time were, and may b,
safely counted upon to disappear,
From an Article by Sir Charles Dixie.
DIR. Wynne, Oculist and Aurist,
The specialist of the eye, ear, most